I hate being wrong, and I hate when people give up.
Jenna Morasca
Recitation: by Male by Female
It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
Andrzej Wajda
FaceRealityCountryNewOutTurned
I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past.
Matt Ridley
FuturePastMeWorldBetterKnow
I am highly variable in my devotion. From a doctrinal point of view or a dogmatic point of view or a strictly Catholic adherent point of view, I'm first to say that I talk a good game, but I don't know how good I am about it in practice.
Stephen Colbert
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I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.
Sue Grafton
PerspectiveGetting OlderRestThink
Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.
Snoop Dogg
TimeBestLossYouDoneSometimes
Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.
Ron Fournier
GoodHealthJusticeWritingLegacy
I think that the S.E.C. has been pretty feckless when it comes to reigning in reckless behavior on Wall Street.
Martin O'Malley
ThinkBehaviorWallStreetPretty
To butcher a pork shoulder is to be forcibly reminded that this is the shoulder of a large mammal, made up of distinct groups of muscles with a purpose quite apart from feeding me. The work itself gives me a keener interest in the story of the hog: where it came from and how it found its way to my kitchen.
Michael Pollan
WorkPurposeMeKitchenStoryWay
I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.
Lisa See
FriendWomenTimeThinkHurtWay
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.
Alice Walker
TraditionYouBecomeAdultAncestry
Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.
Sylvia Plath
MotherDreamsTimeBestDayLie
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
Peter Ustinov
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